14 DAY TRIAL // Unlike others of NVIDIA's OEMs, Inno3D was not satisfied with only the default GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics adapter, so it set about making its own modification, leading to a trio of products.
NVIDIA chose differently from Advanced Micro Devices when it came to its latest and greatest video card.
Instead of forbidding custom cooling and overclocking, it allowed its partners to make their modifications from the get-go.
It might have to do with the fact that, unlike the AMD Radeon R9 290X/290, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti isn't based on a new GPU, so it doesn't need that period of “grace” before it gets to experience OEM modifications.
Whatever the reason, it has allowed Inno3D to introduce no fewer than three GTX 780 Ti adapters.
The first one is the standard card, but the other two are both factory-overclocked and custom-cooled.
The dual-fan card is called Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ 2000 Overclocked, because of the HerculeZ cooler.
Said cooler never goes above 30 dBA of noise (whisper-quiet) and copes with GPU base/boost clocks of 902 MHz / 941 MHz. The texture fill rate is, thus, 209.4 billion/s. For the sake of comparison, the reference board runs at 976 MHz / 928 MHz.
The other card is called iChill GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra and has a triple-fan cooler that is just as quiet as the dual-fan one.
This time, the base GPU clock is of an amazing 1006 MHz, while the GPU Boost setting is of 1046 MHz. Consequently, the texture fill rate is of 232.5 billion/s.
In all cases, the video cards possess 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, handled by the GPU through a 384-bit interface.
Only the iChill GeForce GTX 780 Ti HerculeZ X3 Ultra boasts memory overclocking (pushes the RAM from 7010 MHz to 7200 MHz).
Inno3D didn't provide prices, but it's not hard to guess them. If the default one is $699 / €699, the Herculez 2 and Herculez X3 Ultra should sell for 2-7% or 10-15% more (that's how much better they are compared to the normal one).
